Essay

The first essay that I wrote for EN100 was the Literacy Narrative Essay. Although this assignment seemed dreadful, this essay made me realize how much was expected of me, and how far my writing was from those expectations. Throughout the course of the semester, my writing vastly improved, getting closer and closer to meeting expectations. The Discourse Community Essay was so close to those expectations, and the Informative Essay was right where I wanted it to be. In writing my…

people places and things, like Napoleon Bonaparte, The battle of Waterloo and JFK and his assassination. which I also hope more things like that we will happen in college and to along with improving my punctuation and spelling grammar and getting my essays to a well used grammar level that I can be proud of. When I was in high school we were graded on our grammar very harshly especially on the things I need to work on like punctuation and word placement and I don’t think it helps me and I hope…

In this portfolio, included is my final revised personal narrative essay entitled “My savior and Lighted Path,” my first graded draft of this essay, and my letter of Final Essay Reflection. The “My savior and Lighted Path” paper contains the reasons as to why I am college and why school is so significant to me. In this essay, I speak about my life growing up with a poor, sickly mother in a poor neighborhood where my mother had abusive boyfriends to help pay her medical bills and finances. I go…

have shown improvement in my writing. The essay I wrote in English 49 demonstrated my strengthens and weakness as a writer, where I showed improvement during the semester and what I need to focus on in the future. My whole process essay was difficult, but also it was one of my favorite essays. My whole process essay provides me with an opportunity to tell a story about myself, and also helped me develop my academic writing skills. One of my strengths in my essay was providing details. For…

Before English 1157, I wanted to cry at the thought of writing an essay. I had always considered myself to be a horrible writer and I just had to accept the fact that I would never be good at it. Instead of being taught how I could improve my essays in high school, the teachers were only worried about the 5-paragraph essay format. With that being said, Dr. Rutledge mentioned how he hated that format and would give us an F if we used it. Terrified, I thought to myself “All I have ever learned was…

Jessica Le Dr. Goodman Eng1101 Explanation-Informative Essay Due Date: November 8, 2017 Jessica Le Professor Goodman English 1101 8 November 2017 Calligraphy Being a junior in high school, a common question is “What do you want to be?” or “What do you want to do as a career?” I had taken an interest of graphic design at the time of when I was in search of one and that is what had led me to my liking in calligraphy. I have tried practicing various styles of calligraphy and watching…

Informative Essay-Junior High You're probably in Junior High if you're reading this, so you might be thinking “I’m going to have some much homework” or “The teachers are going strict and I’m going to fail it’s just too hard”. You might not know what to expect and wonder if the older kids will like you, well keep reading if you want to know how to be successful and stay steady throughout the school year. Now if you ask me, Junior-High isn’t anything different from elementary, sure you have a…

conveying a message to the audience is tricky. The way me and my partner decided to do it on Feminism is by first reading our essays that we had to write about the book. We both wrote about how women don’t have any right in Gilead, we wrote about how women suffer knowing they are only value if they can be pregnant. We both realize that we had a lot of points in our essay on Feminism. Then we both decided to do it on women in Gilead, this was how we decided to start our project. We both searched…

chapter was that…An essay is a short paper written on a particular topic. Basically, anything can be an essay that’s with in an average of five paragraphs that’s not so lengthy. It usually does not necessarily require a comprehensive understanding of a particular topic. My writing skills should be presenting my thoughts in a logical and a clear manner. Their different kinds of essays that include: academic, narrative, and argumentative to name a few. When a professor assigns an essay, I as the…

way to capture writing a powerful thesis statement in my essays, specifically, I want to be capable…